The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1887-03-26

car regular Correspondent.


meut "i Congress | will continue,
for a while at least, to send vou a
weekly Washington letter. In
terest in national a. Mrs is peren-
NAL, and It should be 80 with the
American citizen of both sexes
and OF sufficient intelligence To
know what is going on at the head
quarters vi the great Nation. OF
which the people in such an init.
mate and responsible way are u
part. | can think of no hirler
duty Of the press, than to educate
its readers and to keep it ali.- e.
the fact that they are the ccnsutu-
ents not ot Il town, a county or a
state merely, but sf a great Marion,
essaving the sublime experiment
OF self government, and that in the
government of d United States
Is embarked II richer and more
promising t:Slghtage Of human
hope aud cudravar than has be-
lore been kn"wn in the history OF
our pi met. We read with inter
est, the pages OF Roman aud Gre
clan history /; we dwell with rap
ture on the dark romantic volumes
OF the middle ages, ana upon the
vivid narrative of the progress OF
civilization Ms portrayed by the
modern writer's Of France and En-
gland.
II the mobiles. study of mankind
Is man, these cannot but be useful.
bat they are useful especially in
that they afford US the means Of u
comparative study of our time and
country. Never before or else
where has the touch between the
people and the government been
SO close as it is in the United
States. More than ten thousand
newspapers, assisted by the tele-
graph and The latest printing APP
planes, keep the people inform
ed "t measures and events trans
plrlng at the Capital and the rear
and remote parts ofthe Union. No
citizen who is not recreant to the
dearest trust ever y~ouchsafed to
man, can be be Indifferent to the
manner and even to the details Of
his government.
lie should study it with the best
light his time and means afford.
realizing that he cannot escape
transmitting It impaired or i'm
proved to his p%osterity. 1t is not
in the power Of Jay Could to give
to his children as rich a gilt as in
telhgent, benifcent, enfranchised
American citizenship can bestow
on the generations that are to come.
The man who confines his attcn
ten ia his own affairs, TO matter
how pure and upright his life, can
be a good nan only in a narrow
sense. Ii he fails to contribute
ms voice and his vote to the
p%nriticati"n n the int lIgent I'D
ninistration Of public affairs, he
like a coward while crini-
1als monop"Iize the polls, and send
heir kind to the state legislatures
md to Washington.
1t has been common of late +.
peak Of The wiekedness of Wash
The city is no better and
'o worse than the people make It.
"a must remember that the citi-
ems OF yonr Capital are helpless
md are only in a limited sense re-
Ponslble for their government
.herc are $4,000 people in the
district "f Columbit, but they
annot vote. The President Az ,
three commissioners who
re entrusted with the government :
n7er laws csact.d by Congress. ,
END hither ncttcr Congressman ,
nd We will have better laws.
end MS a better President ard we
have better Commissioners.
'ho will in turn make better effort
, suppress the hclls of vice and